From the pulpit, a priest intoned Psalm 51, a traditional penitential prayer.

"God is dead: we are all absolutely free," the priest intoned more rhythmically.

"Glory be to the bomb and to the holy fallout as it was in the beginning," intones a priest.

The priest intoned another passage, and the gong rang.

The priest intoned the prayers in a nervous voice, pulling at his beard.

This sacred man," the priest intoned, "tries to sleep at night with the burden of all Japan on his shoulders.

After the priest intones the first line of the Gloria, the organ again begins the alternation with the choir.

"Let the ceremony of the Blessed Honeymoon night begin," the high priest intoned.

The priest intoned a litany to the machine spirits and then bowed his head once more.

The priest appeared in the proper vestments, and with his altar boy, and intoned the prayers which the entire crowd seemed to know.